SINGAPORE (Jan 29): A decade of ultra-low interest rates and volatile geopolitical tensions have made the task of seeking Alpha more challenging for finance professionals.
Compounding the problem is the rise of Financial Technology, or fintech, which is set to transform the traditional roles played by them.
Now, help is at hand for those who want to keep up with the latest developments in fintech, in the form of a new Masters programme.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School is launching the Executive Master of Science in Investments and Portfolio Risk Management (EMIR) graduate programme in April 2019.
The 14-month EMIR programme will introduce artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning, as well as how these technologies can be applied to portfolio management in terms of investment strategy.
According to Prof Joseph Cherian, Director of the Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments (CAMRI) at NUS Business School, the programme, set in a part-time executive class format, is designed to cater to busy professionals including wealth managers, traders, actuaries and economists. The structure of the programme ensures investment professionals remain actively engaged with their clients, asset portfolio - while concurrently upgrading their professional skills through EMIR, says Prof Cherian.
The in-residence portion is spaced out over 10 months. Five of the six in-residence weeks will be conducted in the CAMRI Lab at NUS in Singapore which is equipped with up to 40 Bloomberg terminals, with the remaining in-residence week held at the Bendheim Centre for Finance at Princeton University.
The remaining 30% of the programme’s course content is taught in the remaining four months via online, faculty-supervised learning called virtual classrooms.
In addition, the EMIR programme qualifies for both company and individual tracks of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Financial Scholarship Programme. This scholarship, offered to Singaporean candidates, covers up to 70% of the programme fee.
The NUS Business School also offers various other professional training programmes through CAMRI for portfolio managers, financial analysts and risk managers. The programmes are developed by academic professionals and conducted in the world’s most advanced Investment Management and Trading Lab, renowned globally as The CAMRI Lab.
“The various applied portfolio management training programmes at CAMRI focus on experiential learning. It blends the best from the worlds of academic theory and applied finance, while emphasising how financial knowledge, research, innovation, technology and big data analytics (also known as financial econometrics) can be usefully integrated into current financial practice,” says Prof Cherian.
“Additionally, CAMRI’s programmes emphasize important fundamental principles in asset management such as ethics, integrity and fiduciary responsibility, where our students and professionals-in-training are taught that the importance of acting lawfully and in the best interests of the client are actually aligned with acting in your own long-term interests.”
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